How would you do this?

[Tinker Gnome]

well if you want a math answer.....

Determine the circumferance of the platform

How many times does it spin a round? S
Determine Circumferance
Multiply S and C ~= Distance fallen in a drop of up to 30'

2*Pi*r = Circumferance

Ahhhhhhh math *Hisssssssss*

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I know this is OT, but what, or should i say who, is Flash Gordon?

 

[Felix]

Oh dear lord. You don't know Flash...

Stands for every one of us.
He saved every one of us.
King of the Impossible.

Flash Gordon is a comic book hero from the 60's (?) and was made into a movie in the 80's. The movie is awesome and has to deal with Ming the Merciless, the destruction of earth, and a running back. I reccomend it. If you like cultish/cheesy sci-fi that is.

 

[trilobite]

Oh dear lord. You don't know Flash...

Stands for every one of us.
He saved every one of us.
King of the Impossible.

Flash Gordon is a comic book hero from the 60's (?) and was made into a movie in the 80's. The movie is awesome and has to deal with Ming the Merciless, the destruction of earth, and a running back. I reccomend it. If you like cultish/cheesy sci-fi that is.

Alex Raymond's comic strip "Flash Gordon" first appeared in 1934, and Universal bought the rights two years later. It spend $500,000 in producing this thirteen-part cliffhanger.

Seen today, the serial still holds up remarkably well....Of course Crabbe made the perfect movie serial hero: intelligent, virile, and courageous. In contrast to the idealized heroics of Flash, there is virginal Jean Rogers as Dale Arden, with her slightly-attired body giving more than a hint of implied sexuality. In direct contrast is Charles Middleton, representing the apex of serial villains as the slick, culpable, ruthless Ming the Merciless, the ruler of the gypsy {i.e., wandering} planet Mongo. * * *

Although the scripting of this serial was rather commonplace, the individual thrills in each chapter kept audiences coming back week after week. Not only were there futuristic rocket ships, ray guns and the like, but the hero encountered such terrors as dinosaurs, monkey-men, a "saceograph" TV device, shark-men, a floating city...the tortures of the horrible atom furnace, a tournament between Flash and assorted monsters, a memory-restoring ray, and the horrible Gocko, Ming's dragon, which had lobster claws and other unpleasant assets.

 

[Felix]

/Hijack

I feel like the guy in that ESPN commercial who was talking at the bar with his "knowledge" and the dude with the huge KNOWLEDGE walks in.

/end hijack

 

[Hypersmurf]

I think that would just result in minis flying everywhere.

Isn't that the point?

I know this is OT, but what, or should i say who, is Flash Gordon?

[chokecoughsplutter]

-Hyp.

 

[trilobite]

In 1980, a campy Dino de Laurentiis Flash Gordon movie was made staring Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming, Topol as Doctor Hans Zarkov, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan. The score and several songs in the movie where performed by Queen!

 

[trilobite]

I am sorry for the thread hijack! Please return to you normal conversation!

 

[Hypersmurf]

In 1980, a campy Dino de Laurentiis Flash Gordon movie was made staring Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming, Topol as Doctor Hans Zarkov, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan. The score and several songs in the movie where performed by Queen!

That's a fantastic movie, thank you very much, and I'll have words with anyone who says differently

"Ah! I thought it was one of the prime numbers in the Ziemen series. I haven't changed."

And man, Brian Blessed rocks.

-Hyp.

 

[Felix]

First Wave: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVEE!